Help me embrace a little child before it is too late, or save an older person from the horror of that fate.

Enable me to be alert, and hear the weakest shout, quickly and efficiently to put the fire out.

In Philadelphia, 83 percent of homicide victims over the last 10 years were killed with a firearm.

The total of 2,629 gun deaths is enough to fill the Academy of Music, where Mayor Kenney was inaugurated on Monday.

We do not have to accept mass shootings as the new normal.

Addressing America’s mass shooting problem — both the public, high-profile disasters and the family tragedies that do not make national headlines — starts with addressing our domestic violence problem.

In Sutherland Springs, a gunman with a brutally violent record — including fracturing his infant stepson’s skull — killed at least 26 people and wounded 20 more. A history of domestic abuse is a common, disturbing thread connecting the majority of America’s mass shooters.

In fact, Everytown for Gun Safety analyzed every mass shooting between 20 and found 54% were related to domestic or family violence. ” In a country where, on average, a woman is fatally shot by a current or former partner once every 15 hours, keeping guns from more abusers would be a life-saving first step.

Here are the types of firearms used in homicides from 2010 to 2014.

Firearm type and caliber have not been identified for all murders committed by a firearm.